CHAPTER X 



HOW THE LOTUS OF THE GOOD LAW 

 WENT A-VOYAGING 



A Prince without Justice is a River without Water 

 Or a Lake in the Rains without Lotus flowers. 



Hindu Saying. 



One period of Indian garden building may be 

 said to close with Fadai Khan's gardens at Pinjor. 

 But the spacious formal garden, " the greatest 

 contribution of the Mughals to Indian art," as 

 Mr. Ha veil justly remarks in his recent book on 

 Indian Architecture, outlived the fall of the 

 Mughal Empire, and started on a new lease of 

 life in the Hindu gardens of Rajputana and 

 Central India. To understand the later develop- 

 ment of the style there, it is necessary first to 

 look back far beyond the times of the early 

 Mohammedan conquests. 



" Theories which bring into connexion with 

 each other modes of thought and feeling, periods 



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